Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18706 Elected
Liberal 10484
Conservative 9181
British National Party 331
Communist Party of Great Britain 314

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21270 Elected
Conservative 9765
Social Democratic Party 6853
Communist Party of Great Britain 355

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23673 Elected
Conservative 8653
Liberal Democrat 5713

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25766 Elected
Conservative 5077
Liberal Democrat 4164
Referendum Party 1042
Socialist Labour Party 656
Socialist Party of Great Britain 304

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Jun, 1999
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 6361 Elected
Liberal Democrat 4068
Conservative 1618
Green 478
UK Independence Party 353
Left Alliance 258
Equal Parenting Campaign 51

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18277 Elected
Conservative 3896
Liberal Democrat 3607
UK Independence Party 775
Socialist Alliance 751

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17526 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5660
Conservative 3865
British National Party 1201
UK Independence Party 494
Independent (1) 189
Independent (2) 126
Alliance for Change 125

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18434 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7789
Conservative 7541
British National Party 3066
Independent 409
No party listed 155

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24758 Elected
Conservative 7791
UK Independence Party 7082
Green 3558
Liberal Democrat 1529
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 330

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33453 Elected
Conservative 9755
UK Independence Party 2056
Green 1189
Liberal Democrat 1063
Christian People's Alliance 157

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30413 Elected
Conservative 11143
Brexit Party 2999
Liberal Democrat 2343
Green 2105
Social Democratic Party (1990) 281

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...


your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Leeds Central BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756458/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 14th May 2024